By Celena Glaghassi, Contributing Writer On Thursday, Oct. 16, the Department of Sociology, in collaboration with the Center for Public Service (CPS) and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosted “Forests, Farms, & Migrant Work: From the West to the East Coast.” The event began at 7 p.m. in Mara Auditorium and consisted of a […]| The Gettysburgian.
Believe it or not, there’s more on that old Regnerus “study” (see https://scatter.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/bad-science-not-about-same-sex-parenting/ for the early rebuttal, more than 13 years ago!). In a recent book, Multiverse Analysis by Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth, they use the technique the book is about to re-analyze the data from Regnerus’s NFSS in order to assess the likelihood … Continue reading "still bad science, still not about…"| scatterplot
New York City is constantly experiencing construction and renewal. Every day, offices and apartments vibrate with the sound of perpetual surgery as spades and jackhammers expose and stitch up the... READ MORE| NYU Press
Javier’s home smelled like a home-cooked meal. His wife, Marisela, had made chicken tinga, refried beans, and arroz rojo with corn tortillas for dinner. Javier was sitting at the cherry... READ MORE| NYU Press
Living in space is a silly stunt surprisingly similar to flying a plane for two months straight. Why is colonization unlikely? Continue reading →| Do the Math
It’s amazing how much smarter everyone else gets when I take antidepressants. It makes sense that the drugs work on other people, because there’s nothing in me to fix. I am a perfect and wise…| Aceso Under Glass
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.| Velcro City Tourist Board
This Vice piece on “British Chaos” content cropped up in Jay Springett’s weeknotes, and with it came a sense of recognition. The phenomenon of their global visibility may be somewhat new—though there was a similar flurry back in the late Noughties and early Teens, as online video started to get established—but without my having seen any of the stuff mentioned, I found myself able to put faces and mannerisms to almost every character described.| Velcro City Tourist Board
Does your publishing organization need a manifesto? Writing a manifesto for your organization can be a great exercise for team building and planning, and a way to ignite action. The post Guest Post — Manifesto Time: Do You Need a Publishing Manifesto? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The fight for human rights is more relevant than ever — but what about the rights of our furry friends? This week, we’re considering the question of animal autonomy: what... READ MORE| NYU Press
This post is a romp through some of the absurd and overtly nonsensical implications of a Flat Earth model. Let it be a lesson to us not to base belief on what we want to be true. Continue reading →| Do the Math
The text explores the tension between students' job aspirations and their pursuit of meaningful work. It highlights Marx's critique of capitalism, emphasizing alienation and the lack of fulfillment it brings to workers. The author argues for education that prioritizes personal growth and purpose, encouraging students to seek fulfillment beyond traditional employment.| vocation matters
Every so often, a topic comes along that strikes at the heart of our work, our families, and our future. In a recent episode of The Marketing Companion, I| Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
Feeling bored led to an exploration of research showing that stillness matters to productivity, creativity, and maybe even personal growth. I was bored| Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
I split this off from clickbait bandits for discoverability, and because it has grown larger than its source notebook. Figure 1 Since the advent of the LLM era, the term human reward hacking has become salient. This is because we fine tune lots of LLMs using reinforcement learning, and RL algorithms are notoriously prone to “cheating” in a manner we interpret as “reward hacking”. Things I have been reading on this theme: Benton et al. (2024), Greenblatt et al. (2024), Laine et al. (2...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
If you’ve ever strolled through a public square in a Chinese city, chances are you’ve encountered the vibrant, music-filled gatherings of the so-called “dancing grannies” (广场舞大妈). But what lies behind the synchronized steps and upbeat music? In her new book, Dancing for Their Lives: The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China (Rutgers University Press, 2025), Claudia Huang, Assistant Professor of Human Development at California State University, takes us beyond the spec...| Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business: The founder is very young, often under 25. He might work alone or with a founding team, but wh…| Aceso Under Glass
We are Gaia's yeast infection. Hear me out. The Gaia hypothesis is actually that living organisms interact with inorganic surroundings to create a complex synergistic system. The pop [...]| ideatrash
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.| Public Books
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Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.| The MIT Press Reader
Women are hot to seduce men. This is both plainly true and paradoxically contradicted everywhere men look at women. So what is actually going on?| PUTANUMONIT
Solomon Park, MJLST Staffer I. Tomorrow’s Originalism: After Original Public Meaning Originalism & the Implementation Problem When interpreting the Constitution, the threshold question is what...| LawSci Forum
The University of Tulsa is pleased to announce that Aaron Schoenfeldt has been selected as the 2025-26 Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research on the grounds of Tulsa’s renowned Gilcrease Museum. Schoenfeldt holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago and will receive his doctorate […]| The University of Tulsa
From Boston Public Library via Wikimedia Commons.Daniel Quinn returned to the theme that “food makes babies” so often in his writings that it would seem he was continually dissatisfied either with the clarity of his case, or with objections people had, or both. I get it. I often return over and over to the same thorny themes, each time thinking I’ll finally nail it. The exercise is as much for improving internal clarity as anything.| Do the Math
Complex systems theory is a way of thinking about systems with many interacting parts and functions. It draws on physics and the science of modeling dynamic systems. It’s a trans-disciplinary, quantitative science of everything. It often and increasingly gets applied to social systems, often through the methods of agent-based modeling (ABM). ABM has a long […]| Digifesto
The International Association of Vegan Sociologists is welcoming submissions for individual presentations or panels for their 2025 annual online meeting “Senses & Emotions”, Oct 4-5…| PHAIR Society
It’s not always easy to recognize a cyberbully, or initially realize you’re being targeted. Here, some practices to help you to grow and protect your professional networks in ways that align with your values and vision.| The Scholarly Kitchen
While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.| The Scholarly Kitchen
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. In our new paper “The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Ca…| Home: Free Sociology!
Content warning: Links to and discussion of edgy people with perverse opinions on hot-button topics too diverse to mention but which surely include gender, eugenics, speech and religion Notes on eccentrics, mavericks, outsider geniuses and fools. What my family called stroppy people. Lacking an identifiable label so you show up in diversity metrics? Not sure whether you are rebelling against society or conforming to a subgroup? How do you get by as a mad outsider? Will you be right twice a da...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
If the media have an incentive to maintain political division, and engagement spikes when the sheer number of people in opposition is larger, then it would be in the interest of media companies to subtly (or overtly) shape narratives that keep the minority in power, ensuring a larger pool of outraged consumers.| The Smalley Creative Blog
From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.| Big Think
Intersectionality, like many academic sociological terms, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in popular discourse. But I found a simple way to approach it by thinking about it with my math b…| Never Down, Always Up
3 years after the Squid Game, Netflix has a new Korean dystopian game-based TV show. It’s called “The 8 Show”. The directing is awful. The cinematography is laughably bad. The plot has more holes t…| Outlook Zen
How we learned to sort true from false in medicine.| Nautilus
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
Today we offer a double-post, with a proposal and a response concerning how we frame our efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as a community.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
A social fact is an idea originating with the sociologist Émile Durkheim—it’s something that has a genesis in the institutions or culture of a society which affects the behavior or attitudes or any one member of that society. Mimetic systems and the scapegoat mechanism are examples of Social facts. The University of Colorado gives the […] The post Social Fact appeared first on Mimetic Theory.| Mimetic Theory
Becoming collapse-aware can make you feel like you're going insane. You'd be crazy if it didn't.| Collapse Musings
Kids risk being bullied or isolated if they don’t spend money on skins or equipment. Researchers have mapped how young people get manipulated into spending money while gaming.| partner.sciencenorway.no
I thank Simon Susen for the opportunity for further engagement on his important contribution. If I can humbly claim to have at least partially inspired him to ask the immensely generative questions he…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
We're not doomed because of climate change, resource depletion, or biodiversity loss. We're doomed because human nature made those things inevitable.| Collapse Musings
Family life looks very different across the country, depending when women first give birth.| www.nytimes.com
AI-generated stranger; I’m not so young/attractive| Do the Math
Sometimes air travel sucks. Delayed flights. Crowded airports. Stressed and testy airline employees. And planes always seem to be packed to the gills. Maybe it’s not surprising that air rage incidents are up, with the International Air Transport Association reporting that “unruly passenger incidents were up 47% in 2022, overtaking 2021’s record high of one […]| John M Jennings
Alexandrea Ravenelle’s latest book explores how COVID-19 affected the most vulnerable wage-earners.| Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine
